SOC 264 - Environmental Sociology

We live in a world where we find ourselves locked into powerful political, cultural, social, and economic systems that significantly effect and are affected by the natural environment. This course will explore these interactions that occur between these systems and the environment. To do so, we will examine the social processes which define, create, maintain, and threaten our relationship with the natural environment. In particular, we will investigate and analyze several important topics, such as:

What exactly is “the environment?”;
What relationships do we have with the environment?;
How can we theorize about these relationships?;
Is there anything that we can do in relation to issues we see in the environment?

Credits 4

Area
Social Sciences

Division
Social Sciences

Compass Attributes
Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars